okay i create a new topic called topic 1, its the only topic in my forum
if i create another one called topic 2 where do you want it to be below or above the previous topic
(bbpress has it where the newest topic is at the top, as long as no other activity has happened)
thanks for your keen reply ! I really appreciate it
I think that you got me wrong ‘:>
(bbpress arranges topics by latest activity) I want to change that to (published date)
thanks
How can I display the published date ?
i dont know at the moment , but i know its possible , because in the backend in topics>all topics you see it shows the created date.
as for example if a post is new and another one is old, and if a comment is posted on the old one, the arrangement will change such that the old will be on the top of the newer one !!
But I think still the arrangement will be based on (last activity date) !?
yeah bbpress arranges topics by latest activity
I cant seem to get it working, I downloaded all five php file from the trac and put them in the bbpress folder but this is still what I got : http://mmo4teen.webuda.com/forum-2/
I’m using the normal stargazer theme with default bbpress.
I do hope that BBPress will eventually cater to everyone’s needs
I do hope it won’t 🙂
bbpress suits many many thousands of forum providers, by being simple and easy, which is what many want.
Complex forums with loads of features that I’ll never use is not what I’m after. There are lots of bb’s out there for those that want all signing all dancing, and just as wordpress is not for all, so is bbpress.
Jimi, I was also disappointed when I installed BBPress and found it to be very unlike a forum I had known in the past. Out of the box it is too simplistic with several themes I tried it with. I just wanted a forum look but this does not seem possible unless you hire developers or are a really good coder with loads of time.
I do appreciate the effort of the developers as an open source software. unfortunately I had the wrong impression from reading reviews of several wordpress solutions as they all pointed to this one as the best. To be blunt I would not like to try the worst ones.
I have had a lot of issues, many plugins are not compatible and I still have nothing that looks remotely like a normal forum. I actually just searched to how to enable PM’s and that is when I found this post and another which says basically you need to install the Buddypress which is an overkill it seems.
I do hope that BBPress will eventually cater to everyone’s needs but sadly I think I have to look at another solution and revert back to my PHPBB forum form 2 weeks ago. Then I will consider going with IP board or Vbulletin.
Jimi, can you tell me why you stopped using IPB?
if you mean like this http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/
follow this topic https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958
and read tharsheblows posts and take his code
or read Bob1nz and go to his pastebin links and take his
Oh, that’s not what I mean.
By table, I mean that every forum in a category has its own table. Even using the default bbpress ( without the Stargazer Colloquium theme ), I get this:
table top
Category
-forum
-forum
table bottom
table top
category
….
table bottom
I’m getting the han of css but not really understand bbpress div ( or is it class, still confuse, I mean like bbp-something) A
and checking on w3 and google doesn’t help much. Do you now any documentation that will help ? Thanks in advance.
Thanks alot that worked I deleted the line :
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘form’, ‘topic’ ); ?>
really appreciate the tip and the extra tip for bbPress templates !! that’s really beneficial !! THX
Currently bbPress only supports moderators and keymasters who can “close” topics.
I sort of see why you ‘may’ want to offer this functionality but I also don’t know of any forum software that does allow this.
You mean replace bbpress.php file content with the archive.php content and then remove that line of code?
I will try that and will let you know if that fixes the issue. Thank you for your help!
I’ve added renamed archived.php without get_template_part('content'); like bbpress.php in my child root, and now forum page won’t load… that’s pretty weird 🙂
A quick look at the “Track’ theme, it looks like if you copy archive.php to bbpress.php that will resolve most of your issues. (Source: archive.php)
After you have done the above remove the following line from your bbpress.php copy:
get_template_part('content');
All of bbPress will sit within the ID id="bbpress-forums" which makes CSS styling even easier and is far from new, I think it has been there since bbPress became a plugin 🙂
A quick look at the “Track’ theme, it looks like if you copy archive.php to bbpress.php that will resolve most of your issues. (Source: archive.php)
Edit: Do the above but remove the following line from your bbpress.php copy:
get_template_part('content');
Have you tried bbPress with your preferred theme?
Give it a try, bbPress will work with most themes “out of the box”.
If you want to start customizing your theme check out the docs
Codex
Thank you for reply.
Yes, I’ve solved with BuddyPress temporarily. It look nice and there are all options I need (profile picture and signature).
Unfortunately the rename page.php trick dosn’t work with that theme.
I’ve noticed same issue with search page (right now it’s disabled), if I do a forum search it won’t find anything except the first blog post (?!?).
This is the theme: http://www.competethemes.com/tracks/
I’ve already contacted support and they couldn’t help me on bbpress, except for the styling that I’ve done with child theme and bbpress classes on body (I’ve noticed that bbpress automatically insert .bbpress and many custom classes on forum pages… wow,very handy, it’s a new feature? I’ve also noticed that this works only in “Forums” slug and not “Forum”).
Hey @microdot, glad you found us after I closed down your other posts 😉
Check this out https://codex.bbpress.org/moderation-and-blacklisting/
Also what setting do you have in WordPress discussion settings for:
Before a comment appears Before a comment appears Comment must be manually approved
I think that is most likely the culprit, what happens if you uncheck that?
I guess that’s my last resort. Unfortunately, most of the gorgeously-designed themes suited for the topic of my site seems to be incompatible with bbpress. I want bbpress to be there, apparently for this I have to sacrifice the chance of using a good theme. 🙁
By the way, if I wanted to tweak the CSS for bbpress section of the site, which file would I modify without affecting the theme on the site’s main section?
You use WordPress themes for the bbPress 2.x plugin.
You can customize the bbPress templates for your theme by modifying them yourself, bbPress also includes full support for custom themes though there are very few of these.
I’d suggest finding a WordPress theme that suits your needs and then tweak the CSS for the bbPress section of your site.
It looks like you’ve now added BuddyPress so this is null and void 😉
If you decide not to use BuddyPress let me know and I’ll take another look.
Typically if you make a copy of page.php and rename it bbpress.php and it doesn’t work is because the themes page.php has some funky code, usually linking to custom templates for custom post types so is usually theme specific and alternatives can be to tyr the themes archive.php and or post the theme name here and we can have a look.
I intend to use a premium theme for the Blog section of my site while I want the bbpress forum in /discuss slug to have a basic theme (preferably Twenty Twelve, as the default themes are best compatible with bbpress). Is that possible by any hacks or plugins?
I guess I could install a different installation (standalone bbpress or as a plugin) in a /discuss directory but I’m afraid at one point the permalinks to the two different sites may be too complicated to handle. Simply put, I don’t like the idea. So I’m hoping this is possible for bbpress [installed as a plugin on the main site] to have a theme of its own other than the one being used on the site.
Please let me know if it’s possible or if there’s any workaround to do what I want.
Thanks in advance for your time.
We have a rather large performance increase coming up in bbPress 2.6 that will address most of your issues, primarily it relates to the sort order of topics as we have a slow database join when we need to sort the topic order based on the latest reply.
bbPress is tested and works on PHP 5.2.4 and later https://bbpress.org/about/requirements/
We ensure that bbPress (and the same for WordPress) is to work 100% on PHP 5.2.4 and up, thus including PHP 5.3.x, 5.4.x & 5.5.x.
We have also begun experimental testing testing with PHP 5.6 alpha and HHVM.
You would want to remove the topic form from content-single-forum.php
See this to get going on how to edit bbPress templates so you don’t lose your changes when bbPress is updated https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
This is working per design of bbPress.
Removing the “forums prefix” removes be default “forums” or in your case “classes”
What you are alluding to is you want the “forum” slug removed, similar are the “topic” and “reply” slug settings, these cannot be removed in bbPress at this stage though you can change them.
